Hormayr

Hormayr, JOSEPH, FREIHERR VON, historian, was born at Innsbruck, 20th January 1782. In 1803 he was appointed keeper of the state and royal archives of Austria, and in 1816 imperial historiographer. But, having conceived an unconquerable hatred of Metternich, who had caused him to be imprisoned for thirteen months upon suspicion of being concerned in a new revolt in Tyrol, Hormayr in 1828 entered the service of Bavaria, and, after four years' activity in the department for foreign affairs, was nominated minister of Bavaria to Hanover from 1832, and to the Hanse towns from 1837. From 1846 to his death on 5th October 1848 he was head of the Bavarian archives. He published several works on the history of Tyrol (including Das Land Tirol, 1845), an 'Austrian Plutarch,' and a general history of modern times.